Elias C. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Elias C., who was born in Golub-Dobrzyn?, Poland (then Russia) in 1917, one of four children. He recounts attending cheder and public school; moving to ?o?dz? in 1936; his father's death in 1938; military service beginning March 1939; assignment to artillery in Inowroc?aw; visiting his mother (he never saw her again); German invasion; surrender; non-Jewish, fellow POWs concealing he was Jewish from the Germans; imprisonment in Zdun?ska Wola; release; returning to ?o?dz?; traveling to Kutno, looking for his sister; returning to Dobrzyn?; forced evacuation; a futile attempt to cross the Soviet border; traveling to P?on?sk, then another town; assistance from a Polish woman; hiding during German searches; volunteering for forced labor building roads; deportation to Dzia?dowo; transfer three days later to the Piotrko?w ghetto; escaping with his wife to Warsaw, then the M?awa ghetto; assistance from the Judenrat; a public hanging; hospitalization; his daughter's birth in 1942; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his wife and daughter (he never saw them again); slave labor in Buna/Monowitz; trading clothing with a civilian worker for extra food; a death march to Gleiwitz; transfer to Mauthausen, Oranienburg, Flossenbu?rg and Stuttgart; slave labor in an airplane factory; a death march to Ganacker, then another death march; escaping; assistance from local Germans; liberation by United States troops; assistance from UNRRA; remarriage in 1949; and emigration to the United States. He shows photographs.

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